Ballot Initiative, Anti-Trans Bathroom Bills Survive Deadline; DEI, Abortion Bills Die
Proposals targeting transgender people and reviving a ballot initiative process are among the bills that survived a deadline.
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Proposals targeting transgender people and reviving a ballot initiative process are among the bills that survived a deadline.
Mississippi lawmakers advanced bills to ban machine-gun converters, expand Medicaid, close most of the state penitentiary and outlaw sexual extortion.
A vote to expand Medicaid to at least 200,000 people won a veto-proof majority in the Mississippi House on Wednesday afternoon. It’s the first time either legislative chamber in Mississippi has taken a vote on Medicaid expansion since it became an option under former President Barack Obama’s 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
The Mississippi House is preparing to debate expanding Medicaid benefits to hundreds of thousands more residents in the poorest state in the nation.
The Republican-led Mississippi House held hearings to consider Medicaid expansion for the first time since it became an option over a decade ago.
A Medicaid expansion bill will arrive in the Mississippi Senate by Monday, Lt. Gov. Delbert Hosemann says.
Mississippi’s failing hospitals, underfunded schools and lost ballot initiative are among issues lawmakers could tackle in 2024.
Mississippi’s people are more likely to die unnecessarily than residents of any other state, State Health Officer Dr. Daniel Edney says.
Medicaid expansion is worth considering, says Rep. Sam Creekmore, the new chairman of the House Public Health and Human Services Committee.
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